California Worker Advocacy Organizations

• Center for Workers’ Rights provides legal representation to low-wage workers, advocates for workers’ rights, and promotes worker education and leadership in the greater Sacramento area
• CLEAN Carwash Worker Center is the first carwash worker center in the country, seeking to build worker power and leadership
• East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) advances economic, racial, and social justice by building a just economy based on good jobs and healthy communities
• Garment Worker Center (GWC) organizes low-wage garment workers in Los Angeles in the fight for social & economic justice
• Jobs with Justice San Francisco is a multiracial coalition fighting for secure jobs with a living wage, accessible healthcare, quality public education, livable climate, and worker rights everywhere
• Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA) builds power with immigrant workers and renters to bring about a more just and inclusive Los Angeles
• LAANE is an organizing and advocacy institution committed to economic, environmental, and racial justice
• Los Angeles Black Worker Center’s (LABWC) seeks to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ Black workers through action and unionization
• Los Angeles Worker Center Network (LAWCN) builds the power and capacity of local worker centers to organize and advocate for low-wage workers in the Greater Los Angeles region
• Pilipino Workers Center aims to secure the dignity and safety of the Pilipinx community in Southern CA and build labor leaders in the domestic worker industry
• Santa Clara County Wage Theft Coalition works to end wage theft, defend workers’ rights, and enforce wage theft judgments
• UCLA Labor Center collaborates with workers, students, faculty, and policymakers to address critical issues facing workers today
• Warehouse Worker Resource Center builds worker power through education, advocacy, and collective action to improve conditions for workers in the Inland Region and Southern California